Reposted by Ben NewmanTaylor Sorensen @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Did you know that LLMs suffer from serious mode collapse? For example, if you ask models to tell you a joke, they almost always tell you the same joke? This is true across samples and even across model families! Why does this happen? Can we improve it? 142
Reposted by Ben NewmanKyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Excited to share OLMo 2! 🐟 7B and 13B weights, trained up to 4-5T tokens, fully open data, code, etc 🐠 better architecture and recipe for training stability 🐡 staged training, with new data mix Dolmino🍕 added during annealing 🦈 state-of-the-art OLMo 2 Instruct models #nlp #mlsky links below👇 16812
Reposted by Ben NewmanMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th! 9302136
Reposted by Ben NewmanAbhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social · 11/11/2024✨I am on the faculty job market in the 2024-2025 cycle!✨ My research centers on advancing Responsible AI, specifically enhancing factuality, robustness, and transparency in AI systems. If you have relevant positions, let me know! lasharavichander.github.io Please share/RT!lasharavichander.github.ioAbhilasha Ravichander - Home 25122
Reposted by Ben NewmanValentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Why and when do preference annotators disagree? And how do reward models + LLM-as-Judge evaluators handle disagreements? Michael explored these questions in a new ✨preprint✨ from his @ai2.bsky.social internship with me! 1298
Ben Newman @benn9.bsky.social · 11/11/2024✨EMNLP Paper! ✨ Have you ever constructed a table to organize your literature review process? Can we use LMs to generate these automatically? We are excited to present ArxivDIGESTables 🍽️ a study of collecting, generating, and evaluating 🎓 scientific literature review tables 📃! 2292